To Comfort The Afflicted
And Afflict The Comfortable

To Comfort The Afflicted And Afflict The Comfortable

Thursday, November 21, 2024

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Looking For Light In The Dark

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WASHINGTON – The days get shorter, darker, colder. This solstice season the descent feels more real. Then there’s 2024 to brace for. It’s all there in the midnight clear here in the heartbeat of the free world. We’re lighting menorah candles and Christmas trees, but without much incandescent spirit. Our holiday rituals are heavy with […]

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Jamie Stiehm
Jamie Stiehm
Jamie Stiehm is a Washington journalist and public speaker who writes a syndicated column on national politics and history for Creators Syndicate. Her commentaries and op-eds have appeared in leading newspapers across the nation, such as American Heritage, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and San Francisco Chronicle. She wrote several essays for The New York Times’ “Disunion” series on the Civil War, one of which, The War Comes Home for Lee, was chosen for their hardbound collection, Disunion, published by Oxford University Press [2016].